An Egyptian Hematite Set Square Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Price - $5500 - $10000 She was a woman of

She was a woman of incredible energy and this is transmitted to her work through her dynamic use of color and energetic "dragged dotting" style

craquelure

and featured

the first of whom—if it is an age of descending purity—are giants

The signed reverse further supports the attribution to a known workshop tradition

An Egyptian Hematite Set Square Amulet, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Price - $5500 - $10000 She was a woman ofFrom the Twenty sixth Dynasty on, two amulets are almost always found together the carpenter's set square, as seen here, and plummet (see EA2372). The set square takes the form of two often unequal lengths of square rod which meet at a right angle. Most frequently made of dark colored stone, especially hematite in the case of the set square, possession of this amulet would guarantee its owner everlasting rectitude. For a parallel example, see: